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Clearly, the mood on both sides has toughened. Even United Nations Secretary General U Thant's meeting in his native Burma with a North Vietnamese delegation failed to spark any hope that the men from Hanoi had anything besides propaganda to offer. In Washington, the feeling has grown that Hanoi has been given plenty of chances to talk-and has repeatedly scorned them. "We leave the door open," said a Pentagon official, "and it's only slammed in our face." The President, accordingly, seems to have concluded that more military pressure against the North offers the only hope...
...apparent short circuit in the ship's system. And moments before the fire burst out in the cockpit, the telemetry readings in Houston reportedly showed a sudden jump in battery temperatures. The obvious possibility was that the spacecraft's circuits may have been overloaded, triggering a spark somewhere and maybe even setting fire to the supposedly heat-resistant wire insulation. But Seamans said that "up to this time," it did not seem that the power source, "whether simulated internal or external, was related to the accident...
...Excuse Needed. The episode fell like a spark on the dried-up timber of Sino-Soviet relations. As the Chinese students continued on their way, some of them conspicuously swathed in bandages, the Chinese embassy lodged "the most serious and strongest protest" and demanded that "the Soviet government publicly apologize." The entire staff of the Moscow embassy held a meeting to condemn the "fascist atrocity." In Peking, Russia's embassy was soon surrounded by a nonstop demonstration of Chinese students and soldiers in an ugly mood. Premier Chou En-lai and Foreign Minister Chen Yi sent a cable promising...
...last month, he sent Co to Taiwan, ostensibly to attend a ceremony opening direct air service from Taipei to Saigon. The decision to dismiss Co had already been made at a meeting of the military Directory a few days before, and Ky did not want Co around Saigon to spark any possible retaliatory coup in his absence. When the news of Go's downfall broke in Saigon, both the Premier and his enemy were well clear of the scene...
...overcome at all--and until it is, any expression of political solidarity would be largely artificial. On the other hand, forcing the centralization of Nigeria could do a great deal of harm. With tribal hostilities still intense, political integration and the consequent tribal intermingling could spark a repetition of last October's devastating riots...